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Texas migrant shelters are nearly empty after Trump’s actions effectively shut the border.

feeds.texastribune.org Texas migrant shelters are nearly empty after Trump’s actions effectively shut the border

The shelters began seeing fewer people dropped off by customs and border agents following former President Joe Biden’s executive order limiting some asylum claims.

Migrant shelters that helped nearly a thousand asylum seekers per day at the height of migrant crossings just a few years ago are now nearly empty.
The shelters mostly along the Texas-Mexico border reported a plunge in the number of people in their care since the Trump administration effectively closed the border to asylum seekers in January. Some expect to close by the end of the month.
McAllen officials reported an average of fewer than 12 people arriving at the respite center run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley this month and are on track to have fewer than 350 people in February. In January, the respite center received a total of 3,188 people.

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I swear, some version of this news article has come out once every winter for the past ten years when reporters ignore the impact of cold weather on people's ability to travel on foot to jerk off some authoritarian bullshit
Also,
But most of those sites were closed last year, Garcia said, as the number of migrant arrivals began to dwindle under the Biden administration. This was partly due to the Mexican government’s efforts to crack down on immigration but also former President Joe Biden’s executive order last summer that did not allow people to apply for asylum if they entered the country between ports of entry.
- Recognizing patterns is not a skill many humans possess. And, natural selection is no longer a worry, since those people usually go into politics and law enforcement
  
  I find that people often recognize the patterns they want rather than those that occur, which results in beliefs such as auras, prophecy, healing spells, and various other pla/nocebo related superstitions.